Test 13 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays…
Did Telephassa's walking get faster after Thasus left?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: walking, Thasus, Telephassa · What happens: do, get, leave, walk
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 2057 «Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays behind, Thasus stops, and Telephassa and Cadmus walk on alone» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Telephassa | Telephassa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 walking | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Telephassa | case |
| 4 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | ccomp |
| 6 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 get | advmod |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 left | mark |
| 8 | Thasus | Thasus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 left | nsubj |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 faster | advcl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | get | present | Telephassa's walking | fast property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | Thasus | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | walk | Telephassa | nom walking «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, she walked with her friends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 walked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 friends | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friends | nmod:poss |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | she | with her friends | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Nah, she slowed down a great deal and leaned on Cadmus for support all day
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 slowed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 slowed | nsubj |
| 4 | slowed | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 slowed | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 deal | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 deal | amod |
| 8 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slowed | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 leaned | cc |
| 10 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 slowed | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 Cadmus | case |
| 12 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 leaned | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 support | case |
| 14 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaned | obl |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slowed | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slow down | past | she | a great deal | day | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent deal=Patient | |||
| 2 | learn | past | she not said here | Cadmus | for support | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Nah, she slowed and leaned on Cadmus, who had to hold her arm up the hill
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 slowed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 slowed | nsubj |
| 4 | slowed | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 leaned | cc |
| 6 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 slowed | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Cadmus | case |
| 8 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 leaned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 slowed | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 hold | mark |
| 13 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | xcomp |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 arm | nmod:poss |
| 15 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hold | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 hill | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hill | det |
| 18 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hold | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slow | past | she | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | learn | past | she not said here | Cadmus | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | hold | to-infinitive | Cadmus's arm | up the hill | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, she slowed and leaned on Cadmus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 slowed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 slowed | nsubj |
| 4 | slowed | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 leaned | cc |
| 6 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 slowed | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Cadmus | case |
| 8 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 leaned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slow | past | she | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | learn | past | she not said here | Cadmus | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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